How do you connect a Mac to an EAP-FAST wireless network?

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How do you connect a Mac to an EAP-FAST wireless network?

Although this guy doesn't seem to like it much:
http://www.lanarchitect.net/Articles/Wireless/EAP-FAST/

my company is deploying EAP-FAST according to this spec:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-cam-winget-eap-fast-03.txt

And some additiona info:
http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=369223&seqNum=5&rl=1

Anyone know of any third-party options?
Otherwise I'll have to buy a long ethernet cable. 🙂

1.5 Ghz PB Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Apr 12, 2006 11:00 AM

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Answer 1

Apr 12, 2006 4:27 PM in response to John Zwiebel

To add to John's comment, I think there are about 1500 of us affected by not having EAP-FAST as an option on our PowerBooks/MacBook Pros at the office. It'd be great to have Apple add support for EAP-FAST to the Airport but failing that a decent third-party option will have to suffice.

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klas42

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May 4, 2006 8:09 PM in response to John Zwiebel

Could the X-Supplicant be ported to support wireless?

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2004-June/007422.html

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May 5, 2006 6:56 AM in response to John Zwiebel

Personally, I feel Apple is a bit slow to pick up on wireless features. This EAP-FAST is a good example, as well as making the Airport Extreme card 802.11a compatible as well (i.e., dual-band).

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